Sideboards
Late 20th Century Philippine Sideboards
Rattan
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Stone, Marble, Brass
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Wood, Ceramic
1980s Louis XVI Vintage Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
20th Century American Campaign Sideboards
Reed
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Sideboards
Bronze
2010s Turkish Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
Mid-19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Sideboards
Velvet
1890s French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Slate, Bronze, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Minimalist Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Industrial Sideboards
Steel
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Gold Leaf, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Iron, Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bamboo, Rattan
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel, Gold
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Sideboards
Ash, Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Maple
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel, Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Steel, Gold
1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Sideboards
Goatskin
21st Century and Contemporary Mauritian Modern Sideboards
Stone
2010s Portuguese Sideboards
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sideboards
Bronze, Steel
1970s American Vintage Sideboards
Brass
2010s French Sideboards
Bronze, Steel
Late 20th Century Hollywood Regency Sideboards
Wood
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Metal
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Sideboards
Marble, Bronze
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century Art Deco Sideboards
Gold Leaf
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Birch
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Wood
1990s Italian Modern Sideboards
Gold, Brass
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sideboards
Brass
20th Century French Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary French Sideboards
Wood, Sycamore
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Sideboards
Wood
20th Century French Sideboards
1960s American Vintage Sideboards
Marble
1950s Unknown Vintage Sideboards
Walnut
Antique, New and Vintage Sideboards
Once simply boards made of wood that were used to support ceremonial dining, sideboards have taken on much greater importance since their modest first appearance. In Italy, the sideboard was basically a credenza, a solid furnishing with cabinet doors. It was initially intended as an integral piece of any dining room where the wealthy gathered for meals in the southern European country.
Later, in England and France, sideboards retained their utilitarian purpose — a place to keep hot water for rinsing silverware and from which to serve cold drinking water — but would evolve into double-bodied structures that allowed for the display of serveware and utensils on open shelves. We would likely call these buffets, as they’re taller than a sideboard. (Trust us — there is an order to all of this!)
The sideboard is often deemed a buffet in the United States, from the French buffet à deux corps, which referred to a storage and display case. However, a buffet technically possesses a tiered or shelved superstructure for displaying attractive kitchenware and certainly makes more sense in the context of buffet dining — abundant meals served for crowds of people.
An antique or vintage sideboard today is a sophisticated and stylish component in sumptuous dining rooms of every shape, size and decor scheme, as well as a statement of its own, showcased in art galleries and museums. Furniture maker and artist Paul Evans, whose work has been the subject of various celebrated museum exhibitions, created ornamented, welded and patinated sideboards for Directional Furniture, collections such as the Cityscape series that speak to his place in revolutionary brutalist furniture design as much as they echo the origins of these sturdy, functional structures centuries ago.
If mid-century modern sideboards are more to your liking than an 18th-century mahogany sideboard with decorative inlays by Hepplewhite, the particularly elegant pieces crafted by designers Hans Wegner, Edward Wormley or Florence Knoll are often sought by today’s collectors.
Whether you have a specific era or style in mind or you’re open to browsing a vast collection to find the right fit, 1stDibs has a variety of antique, new and vintage sideboards to choose from.